Hi there, On Tue, 25 Feb 2020, Gallardo, Jeffery wrote:
I recently installed the clamav on our RSA appliance.
Please tell us exactly how you performed the installation. [*] I'm not entirely sure that it's appropriate to install ClamAV on such an appliance, but I'll let you and your supplier be the judges of that.
We are planning on updating clamav on a monthly basis. My question is: When I'm ready to update clamav do I just download the daily.cvd from the website the day I'm applying the update? What do I need to do to make this an automatic process?
Under what I'm going to call 'normal' circumstances, any installation of ClamAV (whether it came from a distribution's packages, or from the sources which you downloaded and compiled yourself) should include a utility called 'freshclam' which is a daemon designed to keep the ClamAV databases updated automatically. Usually the updates will be configured to take place every few hours, rather than monthly, but you can schedule things to suit your requirements. Perhaps you just need to spend some quality time with the ClamAV documentation, but if you have managed to install ClamAV without installing freshclam please see [*] above. You did not make it clear what you mean by "updating". I guessed from the context that you meant updating the ClamAV databases, but very few of us would do that as infrequently as monthly. If you mean updating the ClamAV software itself, then it really isn't up to you; either you need to keep an eye on the development of the package, or you need to install a package which automatically updates the software (as opposed to just the databases used by the software). I have no idea which OS distribution lies underneath your appliance but it will probably be a version of Linux. Most Linux systems include some kind of a 'package manager' which can do software updates automatically for you, but it can be a little risky to update any software package automatically - sometimes it breaks things - and in this case your supplier might take a particular view. Perhaps you can start from the beginning and tell us why you think you need to install ClamAV on this appliance; whether or not you have a shell prompt on a terminal; root access or 'sudo'; that kind of thing. -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
